HuffPost Parents recognizes that doing so is not an unreasonable reaction to the world we live in, but there is no faster way to make the joy of parenting -- and hence the quality of our parenting -- plummet than going overboard with overprotection.

As more and more young college students began to be referred to me with serious life problems, I was able to isolate several family patterns that strongly contribute to the mental health disorders seen on campus: rage, enmeshment parents who do not understand how essential it is to give their kids some space, rejection/abandonment, severe neglect, and extreme overprotection and overindulgence.

If her comments to Vanity Fair are to be believed, Ms. Windsor, by contrast, conflates her school's responsibility for dealing with bullying with the current regrettable trends in overparenting and overprotection.